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On this day in queerstory: marriage reform at church level

March 9 has delivered moments that ricocheted through law, politics, religion, and pop culture — sometimes triumphant, sometimes complicated, always consequential. Start in 2010. On March 9, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in Comcast Corp. v. FCC, a case not explicitly about LGBTQ rights but one that […]

On this day in queerstory: International Women’s Day

March 8 arrives with built-in energy. It’s International Women’s Day, and for over a century that has meant marches, manifestos, and sharply worded placards. For queer history, March 8 is where feminism and LGBTQ struggle repeatedly collide, collaborate, and occasionally argue loudly before getting back to the work. Let’s start with the obvious: lesbian, bisexual, […]

On this day in queerstory: coming together in the name of progress

March 7 has a habit of catching queer history mid-stride. Not always the day of the grand victory lap, but often the day the gears are turning — bills being debated, books being launched, communities organizing, artists premiering, and activists refusing to take “not yet” for an answer. In the United States, March regularly falls […]

On this day in queerstory: working toward same-sex unions in Europe

March 6 keeps showing up in the documentary backbone of LGBTQ history. Not always as the riot or the rainbow-drenched legislative victory, but as the date stamped on testimony, theater tickets, medical appeals, partnership filings, and memorial notices. Over the last century, it has landed inside the gears of change. In the United States, early […]

On this day in queerstory: the birth of Pasolini

March 5 is the kind of date that reveals how queer history actually survives: scattered across continents, embedded in archives, and preserved in fragments that only later line up into narrative. It is not dominated by a single famous uprising or ruling. Instead, it appears again and again in registries, cultural calendars, and institutional files […]

On this day in queerstory: HoR passes the landmark Equality Act

The most widely documented global milestone tied to March 4 occurred in 2021, when the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Equality Act, a sweeping civil-rights bill designed to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, education, and public accommodations. Congressional records from that day show the bill clearing the […]